Mr. Biden's "Legal war room" will "Ensure that elections are properly administered and votes correctly counted" and "Combat voter suppression at the polls," raved the Associated Press.
Mr. Biden's operation-"The largest election protection program in presidential campaign history"-consists of former solicitors general, Obama legal stars, Democratic Party titans, and "Hundreds of lawyers," cheered the New York Times.
The Trump legal advisory board contains an array of hard-charging state attorneys general, and its own list of stars, from Ed Meese to Harmeet Dhillon to Leonard Leo.
The first phase of this group's legal work-election rules-is nearly done, and it can point to real achievements.
Phase two comes on Election Day, as the Republican National Committee-for the first time in a presidential election since 1980-fans out poll watchers to polling stations and counting rooms in all 50 states.
Legal teams are bracing for chaos in states where the rules have been changed.
On Wednesday lawyers will be filing dozens of complaints over irregularities, recounts, and which stacks of ballots should be counted.
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